How Popular Are You (Hits On Google)

[NightlyNews]

I was just wondering if anyone on the escapist has a more popular first + last name than me.

I personally get "About 18,300,000 results" for my first and last name and "About 3,670,000 results" for my first, middle and last name. All 3 names plus my christian name gets "About 3,260,000 results".

Just curious how internet common everyone's names are. I have the same name as a famous newscaster and my full name is apparently some poet I've never heard of. Tell me if you can beat me and if you can why (is your name Brittany Spears or something). Or if all the hits on your name are you that would be interesting too.

The only reason I was thinking about it is I figure I'm pretty much immune to dates and employers googling my name, so feel pretty safe being an asshat on the internet. For those without interesting hits, has anyone ever found something online you rather they hadn't.

Poll: I believe the current highest claimed is 49,100,000 and the lowest is 3.

P.S. My name in quotes cuts it down to "About 10,100,000 results".

Captcha: I'm not dead yet - kinda creepy

Edit: If you can't tell who I am by my username http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/slow-jam-the-news-wisconsin-protests-3211/1308471/ It's really only funny if you know how serious he normally is.

 

[loc978]

About 243,000... and there's actually a business owner in the middle east with my name... first link. Odd.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Over 1,000,000 results for me. But then I can't possibly be well known, can I?

 

[Sticky Squid]

About 4,170,000 results.
Surprised it isn't more with my name being Jack Kirby.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

First name: 397 million
Middle name: 540 million
Last name: 1820 million

Full name gives 115 million.

And yet first + last is only 12.7 million.

 

[Dags90]

First and last name with/without quotes: ~9,500 returns/ ~11.3 million.
First, middle and last name with/without quotes: 11 returns/~3 million.

Most of the returns are from the UK, which makes sense. My last name has British ancestry and isn't particularly common here.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Andrew Mills gets 3,550,00 results with the first result being that of a Professor of Chemistry and Strathclyde

 

[TimeLord]

4,500,000
But that's kind of jaded going by my surname....

 

[Palademon]

The highest amoutn of results for any combination of my name gets 411,000.

Makes me feel sad compared to other people in this thread...

 

[Dango]

2,230,000

And two of the links on the first page lead to this website.

 

[NightlyNews]

First name: 397 million
Middle name: 540 million
Last name: 1820 million

Full name gives 115 million.

And yet first + last is only 12.7 million.

I've never heard of someones full name getting more hits than just first and last.

Also your last name must be Smith or Johnson because Williams is the third most common last name and you get more hits than me :0. I guess thats American last names only. Wait Muhammad only has 200 million hits. What name gives 1 billion 800 million hits? Was that a typo?

 

[Rascarin]

First and last name, no quotes, gets 22,000 results. The first two look like they might even be about me. With quotes, 23 results, all about me, my family, or my housemates.

Woo, lowest results so far.

Captcha: age before beauty
... ok.

 

[Condor219]

Well, my name without quotes or a middle name gets 9,720,000 hits, with middle it drops to 3,120,000, and with both middle and quotes it drops to 6 hits, 2 of which are irrelevant to my name. Lol.

Even stranger, all the people with my same exact name were born in both the same state and in the same month as I was

Though that's only 2 other people, but still.

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

First name (Paul): 1,930,000,000
Second name (Harrison): 43,700,000
Middle name (Alexander): 605,000,000
Put together (Paul Harrison): 8,630,000
Put together (Paul Alexander Harrison): 2,550,000
Total: 2,589,880,000
Interesting...

 

[Ozzythecat]

First and last gets me 5.74 million

First gets me 720 million

Middle gets me 874 million

Last gets me 96.8 million

First Last and Middle gets me 1.69 million

With the name Justin Adam Quam I wasn't expecting much XD

 

[ShindoL Shill]

9 million. in .13 seconds for William MacKay, 1.3 million for William John MacKay.
then again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mackay
the mackays are a pretty large family, because theyre all technically related to the McKys McKeys etc from the MacAiodhs, who were irish migrants. JW Mackay was a canadian soldier in ww1. freakier part of that: my initials are WJ mackay.
also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Mackay

 

[GundamSentinel]

All without quotes:

First name: 31,200,000
Last name: 2,950,000
First plus last name: 923,000
Full name: 84,200

(Escapist user name: 363,000)

 

[mental_looney]

Full name 6,290,000
first name 290,000,000
surname 551,000,000 common surname XD

 

[electric_warrior]

I get 5,730 results

That's what you get for having a weird name

 

[UltraDeth]

First name: 234,000,000
Last name: 75,600,000
Total: 309,000,000